Chanel here. Welcome to menopause nutrition.
I believe women can thrive in menopause and
had the body composition of their choice if
they must have their nutrition and lifestyle.
Today, we're gonna talk a little bit about
energy. I had 1 of the ladies on
my program.
She was messaging me Just asking a little
bit about out
energy,
exercise, training.
She was like, I'm having trouble
keeping enough approaching in and doing my size.
And so we're going to dive into this,
because the
the actual
advice I over here, I think is very
beneficial to all of you out there.
But before we get started, as usual, am
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Okay. Let's dive into this.
So
I was
I was giving some advice today about
literally issues like feeling flat. And she's like,
I'm just having trouble actually easing
when I don't feel like anything. I don't
feel hungry.
And so I wanted to talk a bit
more about this,
for a number of reasons, there's like a
number of different factors that could be affecting
your energy. That's the first thing. So when
you are working with me, whether it's a
my program or as a 1 on 1
client, I have different protocols
to
just tick off different areas because there are
number of factors that can affect your energy.
Of course, your nutrition. In is super important.
So the first step is that fuel you're
putting in your body needs to be the
right fuel. And generally, when I'm
unit, working with someone or they're they're joining
and learning.
They realized that maybe they've been having too
minutes communicate hem not enough protein or their
macron nutrients are not balanced.
That makes a big difference.
So that's the first thing like neo christian
is the building block of where your energy
comes from because if you're giving your body
crap,
then you're going to feel crap. Right? That
whole like, you are what you eat business,
there is kind of something to that. So
when you eat really good quality food,
then
your body has good
sources to create energy from. Now there's also
another factor that makes a big, part of
this conversation, and that's your gut health. So
on my program, we're just about to launch
into our lifestyle
section, and we go through gut health in
quite
detail
because you could have the absolute perfect diet.
And if your gut health is off, health
you will not create good energy with it.
So that is a big problem, and we
need to address it. So gut health there's
a gut brain connection really important
there's a lot of flow on effect from
that. So gut health is really essential.
Then there's just like all of the other
bits and pieces like,
drinking an afford, making sure you're hydrated, like,
dehydration can actually rob with energy.
You know, obviously sleep, like, there's like so
many different factors that actually can affect whether
your energy is good or bad. That's where
supplements can come in as well. Talk to
my program and my 1 on my clients
about supplements,
the different type of supplements that can be
helpful for
energy production, like, vitamin b's and all different
things. So there's a lot of different
ways we can help our body have a
better energy, spider supply,
and
there's a lot of different factors that are
involved. Now I'm going to just dive in
a little bit deeper about
the
not eating business because this is quite common.
And I think people don't understand the
ramifications of it. Right? So
when you are not hungry, and then you
just decide well, I'm not hungry then I'm
just not gonna eat.
That might be fine for today. Right? But
tomorrow when you want to go to the
gym or you wanna do your workout or
you just... A function as like a well
rounded at adult and b great have great
energy, mode focus,
sleep, on It is impacted because you haven't
consumed enough calories.
So what we're trying to do is have
a base of
stability. So every day your body knows it's
going to get however many calories you need
on a daily based,
and we're not fluctuating
like really
dramatically
because 1 that does not create stability in
the body, and it doesn't feel safe. And
that causes, like, bad cravings and often snacking.
So we don't want that to happen.
We want fuel. So right we cannot expect
to
show up to the gym,
really for a workout when we haven't fueled
our body correctly.
So if today, you don't feel that hungry
that might... You might think that's fine. I
just want... I'll just miss that lunch, or
I'll just miss that breakfast.
And you have then probably robbed yourself of
500 calories for the day.
The next day, you will notice it. You'll
have less energy, you'll have less motivation. You
won't be able to perform as well in
the gym or work workout or whatever you're
doing.
And that does not create consistency.
So what we're trying to achieve here is
consistency because consistency my friends
is
the secret over here. There's no magic bullet
to be honest.
And those of you have listened in for
a while, would have heard me bang on
about this Honestly,
it's pretty boring the things that you have
to do for success, You have to do
them every day. So if you are eating
a protein every day, like you're getting your
steps in you're drinking your water, you're... Lifting
heavy weights and building muscle like getting enough
sleep, tech tech, like
consistency is what we're going for, So when
we rob our body of 500 calories because
we've lunch or we haven't had breakfast,
that affects.
The flow on effect of being able to
have energy in the gym that go go
and get your steps in all of the
other things that happens.
It also affects your motivation.
And then you hear me say to here
while we can't trust our motivation. We can't.
We definitely cannot.
But it's very hard when you feel tired
to get motivated.
So it's way easier when you're full of
energy to get yourself to the gym,
everyone can agree with me here and throw
it throw it thumbs up, you know,
because the truth of the matter is is
that when we have in it. G we
are much more likely to do do all
the things.
So
these are kind of the... It's a big
it's a big topic that these are the...
I guess, the the underlying
lesson I won't need to take away from
this conversation is
if you don't feel hungry,
then you still need to eat your good
food. And
and
by just
skipping a meal is not going to get
you
to
your end result any quicker. If anything, it
could pro probably
inhibit your success because the next day, you
will... You might not even sleep that well
that night, you won't have energy for your
workout. You'll feel flat and un,
and that's not what we want. We want
consistency every day doing the things.
I hope that kinda makes sense. The other
thing I wanted to talk to you about
was that there are days where you just
don't feel as energy as you did yesterday.
Like we are not robots over here. We
are human beings.
I'll tell you today. I did this much
high rock worker yesterday.
My bats really sore today. Like actually not
just my butt, like,
lots of areas of my body. And so
I don't have as much energy maybe than
than I did yesterday because my body is
sore, and
because I exert myself. So we have to
also lean into that some days we just
don't have as much energy because maybe we've
done something to create that or, maybe we
just didn't sleep that well that night.
That is normal. Like, we're not ever going
to feel
exactly the same day in day out. Like,
generally, we want to have a good level
of energy.
Actually, I've just thought of something else as
we're talking. So
the other thing because I know that she
will listen to us as well. I never
known names over here. A lot of you
know I'm talking about you.
Because,
you know, but I never Never never names,
but I know she'll listen. The other thing
you could do if you were feeling
low and energy. And when I'm talking at
low and energy, I'm talking for an extended
period of time. So if you just had
a day, like, I'm today, like saw the
tired
because of my work workout yesterday make sense.
Right? I know there's a reason. If you
were going on and on,
week after week, like, 1 of my other
friends just had an iron
infusion this week because she has been struggling
with some fatigue. Now, that is something I
would encourage you if this fatigue or feeling
flat, than or low energy
continues for more than a week,
go and get your iron checked because low
iron can be debilitating. I used to suffer
from when I was younger,
and it is obviously something that you can
fix. It's actually the most common
kind of,
you know, suffer
if you looked at all of the
dysfunction if you like, low iron is the
most common in females. So it's a very
much more common and unfortunately than it than
we would like. So if you're tuning into
this and you're like, yeah, actually,
maybe I have been suffering with, like, just
fatigue for too long. Go to the doctor,
get your iron checked that definitely could be
playing out. And it will make a big
difference once once you fix that. So
I will never
prescribe a iron to anyone,
because it's something that they really need to
get, and tested and checked don't ever just
go and take it, thinking it may be
that because that is 1 supplement that you
definitely need to know if you need it
or not.
So that is my little spiel today on
energy. Hopefully, you have taken something out of
this. If you're listening to this and you're
feeling amazing, then at least its information for
the future if you happen to find yourself
in
low energy, and you can do something about
it. As always, thanks for tuning in and
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